Oidon Company, Ltd. (OIDN)

[Spellbound]

I know that the Real Estate bubble is a little off the beaten path. But, it still offers some kind of encouragement. Notice the timeframes table below. In particular the 'Fear' timeframe. That's when I suspect that gold will be at its absolute best price. Sorry if the acutal chart doesnt make it to this post. I haven't done it before, so you may have to follow the article link and look for it there.

The Psychology of the Bubble
Ref - http://www.irvinehousingblog.com/2007/06/25/houses-should-not-be-a-commodity/

http://bubble-psychology.jpg[chart].

The above graph is an excellent depiction of the psychological stages of a market bubble. It is fairly easy to put timeframes to each of these stages as displayed by our local housing market:

Take off: 1998-1999
First Sell Off: 2000
Media Attention: 2001-2002
Enthusiasm: 2003
Greed: 2004-2005
Delusion: 2006
Denial: 2007
Fear: 2008
Capitulation: 2009-2010
Despair: 2011-2013
Return to the Mean: 2014
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